Wednesday, April 13, 2022
The Subway Shooting
Yesterday during the morning rush hour, a man on the NYC subway set off smoke bombs and then started to shoot the other people in his subway car. Ten people were shot and several more hurt in the resulting tumult. The police are seeking a man named Frank James, who apparently boarded the train five miles from the Sunset Park station where he began shooting. Mr. James has had addresses in Wisconsin and Philadelphia.
Why would someone do that? We don't know much about Mr. James, and should be cautious in certainty that it was him in the first place-- we have a way of being wrong about those things, after all. The press has linked James to a YouTube channel in the name of ProphetofDoom88. It's a weird moniker, since "88" is often used by white supremacists to refer to Hitler (H is the 8th letter, so Heil Hitler is 88). This video largely recounts a mass shooting in Milwaukee.
But imagine being locked into a subway car filling with smoke and realizing that someone is shooting. There is no where to go. You can't see anything.
That's terror.
